Quotes About Intentionality

No conceptually regimented and normatively informed theory of mental disorder can be devised without taking philosophy of mind seriously and knowing something about this subject area of philosophy and of such topics as consciousness, Intentionality, personal identity, the mind/body problem and rationality.

I wonder how many decisions we make every day. I believe it's probably hundreds. We decide whether or not to get out of bed, what we'll eat, what we'll do, what we'll think about, what we'll say... and on and on.

I always tell people that this is a really simple deal: Work hard. If you work hard, follow what's required and set your priorities right, then you can really perform without taking shortcuts. If you're taking shortcuts, you can't be free.

I prefer face-to-face conversation as opposed to texting. You need to go out of your way to spend good time with one another; you need to have a date night. Whether you have kids or a career or whatever, for a relationship to thrive, it's about making time for each other.

If you spend a whole afternoon just eating popcorn and watching football, there's absolutely nothing wrong with that. But if that's all you do, you get swept along with the tide, without any idea of where you're going.

If the precious, limited hours of my day are used bit by bit in scanning information, I will have less and less time for the attentive, slow, good work of creativity, conversation, and connection that real people and real homes require.

My goal now is to remember every place I've been, only do things I love, and not say yes when I don't mean it.

Study your prayers, a great part of my time is spent getting in tune for prayer.

The time has come to challenge our obsession with doing everything more quickly.

If you live below your means, you can turn down stuff all the time.

The people God put in your life are not there by accident. Don't get so busy that you just give them your leftover time.

Life should never happen to you, but you should hold the power over life, with what kind of experience you wish to have, without any internal and external pressure.

will think of the Lord in what we are doing at work. We will ask, Why would the Lord like this done? How would the Lord like this done? When would the Lord like this done? Will the Lord help me do this? What effect will this have for the Lord's honor? Being a Christian at work means radically Lord-centered living.

I have thus defined the concept of the "Background" as the set of nonintentional or preintentional capacities that enable intentional states of function. But

Don't let making a living prevent you from making a life.

Make it a simple formula for your life.

Intentionality and talent always matter. An extraordinary feat is certainly made more likely by someone's focus, hard work, etc. But chance also matters.

I like my decisions to be taken carefully, so they don't harm anyone close to me, so that the people close to me are happy.

You learn to give up what's not working and surround yourself with things you love - not what's correct or proper.

As women, we're presented this false choice that is either our children or our work. But I don't think I fully understood the paradox until I had a child. I bring my son to work and let other parents do the same. I am very intentional about the workplace that I create, and my son is a big part of that.

We have to be intentional with including trans women, all women, all marginalized people. Whether we say 'Me Too' or call ourselves feminists or strive to create a diverse workplace that reflects the world we live in, it's all about being intentional.

Around the start of the fourth year, the child begins to elaborate an understanding of metarepresentational agency: the child attributes intentional attitudes, such as belief and pretense, to people's representations of the world. Only then can children examine whether their and other people's thoughts about the world are true or fictive, likely or incredible, exaggerated or imprecise, worth changing one's mind for or forgetting.

Much better to do fewer things and have time to make the most of them.

You will never have time for prayer; you must make time.